That appetizing photo you see above is the cover for It's Blitz! (yes, the title has an exclamation point now), the third album from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Mastodon, Neko Case, and Morrissey better watch their backs, because the Best Cover Art of the Year race is getting tight. The trio recorded It's Blitz! with two producers: TV on the Radio's David Sitek, who did production work on the last two albums, and Nick Launay, who co-produced the 2007 Is Is EP along with the band. But the band didn't do everything the same. For one thing, guitarist Nick Zinner plays a whole lot of vintage synths on this thing. For another, according to a press release, the band began the writing process "in the middle of a snowstorm, in a hundred-year-old barn in rural Massachusetts." So that probably messed with their formula a bit. Interscope will release It's Blitz! sometime this spring UPDATE: The release date is April 14, as Spin reports. And the album has guests! TVOTR frontman Tunde Adebimpe sings on one song, with Kyp Malone adding (seriously) tambourine. Other guests include Antibalas saxophonist and TVOTR sideman Stuart Bogie, YYYs touring member Imaad Wasif, and the bird and the bee's Greg Kurstin. Some of the album's song titles: "Skeletons", "Heads Will Roll", "Soft Shock". Spooky! The first single, "Zero", is unfortunately not a Smashing Pumpkins cover. But it does have this excellent artwork.